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HEADLINE: Hollywood Loves Poker
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Hollywood has long known a high stakes poker table is a powder
keg of dramatic potential. Aces.com's sexy new poker flick, Aces
the Movie, is the latest in a long line of poker classics. The
popular online casino is celebrating the DVD release of Aces the
Movie -- dubbed "the Charlie's Angels of Poker" at the
WSOP this summer -- with a gala star-studded event in Beverly
Hills next week. Hundreds of L.A.-area Aces.com players will attend
the event – five of them flown in from all over the U.S.
on VIP tournament prize packages.
The recently re-designed Aces.com site features a tribute to
Hollywood's love for poker. The Top Ten Poker Movies of All Time
has concise reviews of the poker classics.
Matt Damon revived the poker movie genre in Rounders (1998),
but Hollywood has been fascinated by poker and poker culture since
Hopalong Cassidy saved the day by posing as a newbie poker player
in Sunset Trail (1939),and Gene Autry starred in the classic poker
murder mystery, Loaded Pistols (1948). In Maverick (1994), Mel
Gibson and Jody Foster needed $3000 dollars to enter a winner
takes all poker tournament. California Split (1974) directed by
Robert Altman (M*A*S*H) and starring George Segal & Elliot
Gould, showed the day-to-day life of card-playing, sports-betting,
sleep-till-noon gamblers. Like the main character in 'Aces the
Movie', the heroine in Big Hand for a Little Lady (1966) had never
played poker before she sat down to the big table. Steve McQueen
manages to get into the highest stakes game of his life in what
most consider to be the ultimate poker classic, The Cincinnati
Kid (1965).
"Poker isn't just about rules and strategy," said Aces.com
Manager Rene Quesada. "It's a culture. With so many people
playing poker online now, it' s a lifestyle that millions dream
about."
The retro Vegas-style online gambling site has sponsored and
promoted 'Aces the Movie' all summer. Thousands of free DVDs have
been given to new players and awarded as contest and tournament
prizes.
Aces.com's Top Ten Poker
Movies: Aces the Movie (2006), The Cincinnati Kid (1965),
Rounders (1998), Big Hand for a Little Lady (1966), Kaleidoscope
(1966), Maverick (1994), The Gambler (1980), California Split
(1974), The Sting (1973), High Roller - The Stu Ungar Story (2003).
The complete Top Ten Poker
As they say in the movies…
"If we shoot him, we won't have anyone to play with."
Wyatt Earp in Cheyenne Autumn
"A deck of cards is like a woman -- usually when you pick
one up, you wish you hadn't." Flame of the Barbary Coast
"When your opponent is holding all the aces, there's only
one thing to do. Kick over the table." Robin and the Seven
Hoods (1964)
"Is this a game of chance?" "Not the way I play
it, no." W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee
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